Re:Gimp is working on its own version of “smart objects”
by henearkr on Saturday August 01, 2020 @07:26AM
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Gimp is actually addressing the problem by developping smart objects. According to the article, thanks to the smart objects you will be able to do your vector-drawing operations (including circle, polygon drawings etc) using Inkscape, and the changes will be automatically reflected in the linked layers in Gimp.
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Re:Gimp is working on its own version of “smart objects”
by muro on Saturday August 01, 2020 @08:39AM
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I'm sure there are some people who think "when I want to draw a circle in gimp, I start by installing Inkscape", but I'm surely not one of them.
Re:Gimp is working on its own version of “smart objects”
by zimpenfish on Saturday August 01, 2020 @10:13AM
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“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
Re:Gimp is working on its own version of “smart objects”
by henearkr on Saturday August 01, 2020 @01:47PM
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If you think of {Gimp, Inkscape} as a toolset, your problem is gone. Especially if when you clic "edit" on your linked shape Inkscape opens automatically: then the frontier between the two is as thin as the frontier between Grep and Sed when you use them together through Bash.
Drawing geometric shapes is inherently vectorial. Not Gimp's purpose.